The Band Teacher’s Percussion Guide
Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion
(Oxford University Press)
The Band Teacher’s Percussion Guide
Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion
Stewart Hoffman
The Band Teacher’s Percussion Guide provides all the information you’ll need to teach with confidence in the classroom.
- Presents a clear and comprehensive system to help students achieve greater control over their technique
- Features dozens of practical exercises on all percussion instruments
- Based on decades of experience teaching percussion in public and private schools
- Includes discussion and suggestions for testing and evaluation of percussion performance
The Band Teacher’s Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion is an essential practical resource for instrumental music teachers and band directors. Author Stewart Hoffman is a Juilliard-trained percussionist, performer, private instructor, and former classroom teacher. He offers a comprehensive yet accessible and clearly written handbook to help set teachers and students firmly on the road to classroom success. Readers will find a thorough foundation in snare drum, timpani, keyboard percussion, drum set, and auxiliary and Latin percussion techniques. More than this, he provides practical advice on curriculum and methodology, packing page after page with teaching tips developed through decades of experience.
For educators and band directors who want to learn more about percussion instruments and playing techniques, refine their percussion-teaching skills, or set the classroom stage for a more effective and rewarding teaching experience, The Band Teacher’s Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion will be a valued resource for discovering:
- keys to effective evaluation
- how to plan a percussion program and select percussionists
- recommended instruments and mallets; repair and maintenance guidelines
- lifts and levels, a system that leads students to greater control and a more relaxed snare drum technique
- technical exercises for all main and accessory percussion instruments
- easily referenced summaries of points to focus on when practicing
- guidelines for teaching jazz, Latin and rock drumset
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Getting organized
1.1 Selecting Your Percussionists
1.2 Planning Your Percussion Program
1.3 Challenging the Beginning Percussionist
Part 2: The Snare Drum
2.1 Introduction: The Snare Drum
2.2 Holding the Sticks
2.3 The Relaxed Stroke
2.4 Working with the Rebound
2.5 Lifts and Levels
2.7 Sticking
2.6 The Rudiments: Flams, Paradiddles, Drags and Four-Stroke Ruffs
2.8 Snare Drum Rolls
2.9 Evaluating Snare Drum Performance
Part 3: The Drum Set
3.1 Introduction: The Drum Set
3.2 Drum Set Techniques
3.3 Jazz Drumming
3.4 Latin Drumming
3.5 Rock Drumming
3.6 Drum Solos and Fills
Part 4: The Mallet instruments
4.1 Introduction: The Mallet Instruments
4.2 Holding the Mallets: The Two- and Four-Mallet Grips
4.3 Playing Mallet Instruments
4.4 Sight Reading on Mallet Instruments
4.5 Evaluating Mallet Instrument Performance
Part 5: The Timpani
5.1 Introduction: Timpani
5.2 Playing Timpani
Part 6: Auxiliary Percussion
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Concert Bass Drum
6.3 Suspended and Crash Cymbals
6.4 The Tambourine
6.5 The Triangle and Sleigh Bells
Part 7: Latin Instruments
7.1 Introduction to Latin Percussion
7.2 The Conga Drum
7.3 Other Latin Percussion
Part 8: Instrument Storage and Maintenance
8.1 Storing the Instruments
8.2 Replacing and Tuning Drum Heads
8.3 An Overview of Percussion Inventory and Instrument Maintenance
Percussion Inventory and Repair Checklist
Appendix A Exercises
Appendix B Book Recommendations
Index
“An exceptional, comprehensive work…The material is well-organized and clearly presented.”–Morris Lang, New York Philharmonic, emeritus
“An indispensable teaching tool for high school music teachers who teach beginning percussion students. The pages are packed full of useful information and long awaited insights which will help integrate young percussionists into a successful and rewarding band program.”–David Friedman, University of the Arts, Berlin
“This book will both deepen percussion techniques for band directors and refresh teaching concepts for the percussionist-studio teacher.”–Ruth Cahn, Senior Instructor in Percussion, Eastman Community Music School
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256 pages – Publisher: Oxford University Press (March 1 2017)
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"Teaching the First Snare Drum Lesson" not only lays out a basic snare drum technique, but explains how to teach it as well. Junior high, high school music teachers/band directors and percussion students alike will find fundamental information on how to play with a relaxed and supple technique that will serve them for a lifetime.
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